Minister Charlestine Herbin is an author, poet, gospel singer, minister, and storyteller. She is the founder and president of Broken Vessel Ministries. She wrote and released her greeting card, "Surrender," in 2013. It is ministering and touching lives across the United States. Minister Herbin was born in Greensboro, NC to the late Bessie Scales Brown and Mr. Charles Boyd on February 22, 1959. She is the ninth child of ten children in her family. She attended Grace Lutheran School, Jonesboro Elementary School and Jackson Middle School all in Greensboro, NC.